Gulfstream announced plans on Tuesday to build a new $33 million aircraft paint facility on the southwest side of its Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport headquarters. “The announcement came up unexpectedly as a result of a Savannah Economic Development Agency [SEDA] board meeting that happened that day,” a company spokesman told Aviation International News.
The new 72,000-sq-ft, state-of-the-art paint facility will be located near the company’s 679,199-sq-ft Savannah Service Center, which is the largest business aviation maintenance facility in the world and can accommodate up to 36 aircraft at a time. According to Gulfstream, the paint hangar will support the company’s growing refurbishment work, especially now that the worldwide Gulfstream fleet has surpassed 2,300 aircraft.